Other

Recent statements in this category are shown below:

Summary: there is not enough evidence to conclude an Educational Psychologist failed to carry out an assessment following an incident in 2012, but the Council did not complete a review of Mr B's Statement of Special Educational Need in March 2013.

Summary: The Ombudsmen find fault in the way a Council, NHS Trust and private provider worked together when a specialist placement ended in an unplanned way. The provider did not keep others properly informed of the resident's deterioration, and the Council and Trust did not work together effectively to arrange alternative care in a timely way. This caused the young woman distress, and her parents stress. The organisations will apologise and provide symbolic financial payments to recognise this injustice. They will also take steps to learn from the case and prevent recurrences.

Summary: Mr B complains the Council has not dealt with an allegation against him properly, causing him distress and leaving him unable to work for longer than was necessary. The Council acted properly when it held a multi-agency meeting to consider a child protection referral concerning Mr B and when it considered whether there should be an internal investigation. The Council did not fully follow its own guidance for dealing with allegations against people working with children. This did not cause Mr B any injustice.

Summary: Miss B says the Council failed to investigate her safeguarding concerns, failed to provide her daughter with education for a three month period and unreasonably refused to put her complaint through the complaints procedure. The Council failed to consider the safeguarding concerns Miss B had raised once she completed the school's complaints procedure and failed to consider providing alternative education while it considered those concerns. This potentially left Miss B's daughter without education for 6-8 weeks longer than she should have and led to Miss B having to take time to pursue her complaint. An apology, payment to reflect the lost education and a time and trouble payment are satisfactory remedy for the injustice caused.

Summary: Mrs X complained the Council wrongly told her childcare provider her son was eligible for free two-year-old childcare funding. She states this has caused financial loss. The Council is not at fault.

Summary: Ms X complains the Council's Education Welfare Service failed to provide enough support when her son was increasingly absent from school and only tried to prosecute her. However, the Ombudsman has not identified fault with the Council's approach. By the time it received a referral from her son's school several typical measures had already been attempted to improve his attendance. Although these were reviewed by the Council at later meetings, its decision to quickly send the case to its court panel for review was something it was entitled to do.

Summary: The Council failed to properly consider whether it was in the complainant's son's best interests to join reception or year one when he starts school in September 2018. The Council has agreed to review its decision and issue guidance to its staff.

Summary: The Council was not at fault in how it investigated Ms B's allegations that her daughter was assaulted at school. I have not found fault with how the Council conducted the investigation, so I cannot question its decision. There was also no fault in the Council's actions while Ms B's daughter was out of school between March and November 2017. There was a school available which would deliver her special educational needs provision, but Ms B did not send her there.

Summary: When managing the educational and social care needs of a child excluded from school and having removed home education, the Council failed properly to assess and address those needs while the child was in its care, leading to lost education, distress and inconvenience.

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